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Aug 23, 2008 07:58 | #1

This is what I produced.

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I used 150w halogen security light (the ones to stop burglers) on each side of the cardboard box and the pop-up flash on my 400D. Ok so not an ideal setup by any means and I already will buy another security light for the top and not use pop-up flash - but I am not going out today !!

I took it as a JPEG and changed the white balance on the camera to tungsten then white flourescent. However as you can see from above it is still not brilliant white. Can I easily alter this in Elements 6 or do I need to go for RAW?

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Aug 23, 2008 08:52 | #2

Assuming your background is white, take a picture of that without the product and use that photo to set the custom WB. That will give you the white you are looking for.

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Aug 23, 2008 11:25 | #3

Decided to just set the white eye dropper in Levels to sample the background, added a border and some text. IMHO a better effort .

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